New Equipment

My Playground has new Equipment in it!

We are practicing and practicing on the old equipment while we get good pictures to show you how much fun I'm having with my NEW equipment!

It's so much fun!  I feel like I'm flying!  I always keep a happy face...

...Brita has to concentrate lots.  She keeps her "OMG I'm too old for this" face on.

Yee Ha!  Let's go again!

My Friend Levi

I am teaching my friend Levi the English methods of horsekeeping.  Scrub harder Levi!

Yes, that's it!  Look at that little hand go!

And seeing my "happy lip" Levi asked if I would like some snuff put in it.  What is "snuff"?

Editor's Note:  Little Levi kindly removed his hat and set it on the ground because each time it bobbed into William's peripheral vision he jumped a little!

The Lone Ranger

I would have been SO good in this role!  And, a little known fact about my real life personality:  you know how movie horses always nicker and talk and all you horse experts think "that is so cheesy, real horses don't do that.... "  well I do.  I talk all the time.   I'm a chatterbox.

Masked Bandits

So there I was minding my own business.  Out for a summer stroll.

Wait!  What's that in my paddock?

Bandits!

Run for your lives!

Flee!

One last look from a safe distance.

Summer Buggies

I've been having trouble with buggies. And not the kind you think.

These things chase horses.  I've seen it happen.  Any horse that gets strapped to one of these things ought to receive hazard pay.  If I were strapped to one I can tell you I would do my work in a BIG hurry. What's more, it means that there are some of those men with the scary hats lurking around.  

I wonder where they could be hiding?

No, Seriously... let's get out of here!

It's Elementary My Dear

Brita says I can count but I can’t add.

At the end of each ride, I get a treat.  It consists of three handouts.  Usually peanuts.

Handout (one...)

Unbuckle near side girth

Handout (two...)

Unbuckle off side girth

Handout (three...)

Remove saddle

The other day I got a special treat of celery. But it came in two pieces.  

I was SHORTED!

This is unfair!  I work hard for these handouts!

Brita went and got some peanuts.  She gave me two hands full.  SHORTED AGAIN!

I will not stand for this!  I know my rights.  I get THREE!  No, that was NOT four.  That was TWO.

Exasperated, Brita went back for more peanuts.  One Two Three…

That’s more like it.

Brita says if I’m smart enough to count, I should be smart enough to add.

I got 7 handouts.  Ha Ha.  I may not know my Addition but I know my Manipulation.

The River Wild

I jumped a River!

It was the first river I ever saw.  Don't ask why, but this direction...

Was much more scary than this direction...

We gave up trying the first direction and went through a swampy area instead.  That was a much bigger deal for a horse who is allergic to Quick Sand.  Then on the way back we tried again.  I could see the gate to home right in front of me.  At first I thought I might leap the whole thing.  Brita thought that was a BAD idea.  Especially because I had my head way down examining the footing.  After I grazed on the bank for a few minute I screwed up enough courage to try stepping in.

Brita thought I might like to play in the water, but all I could see was that sheer precipice on the other side that I had to leap up.  When I got down in I realized there was water.  I like playing in water.  Maybe next time I will be able to think about something other than the cliff and actually enjoy myself.

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